Inflammatory bowel disease is presenting sooner after immigration in more recent US immigrants from Cuba.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite a rising incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Hispanics in the United States, there are no studies examining the relationship between immigrant generation and IBD onset among Hispanics.

Aims

To determine whether age of IBD diagnosis, time from immigration to IBD diagnosis and IBD phenotype, differed across immigration periods in South Florida Cuban immigrants.

Methods

This was a cohort of consecutively identified Cuban-born adults who developed IBD in the United States and were followed in gastroenterology (GI) clinic. We divided time cohorts of immigration by historical relevance: before 1980, 1980-1994 and 1995-to-present. We examined differences across time cohorts in diagnosis age, time from immigration to IBD diagnosis, and IBD phen

SUBMITTER: Damas OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001638 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature